Happy weekend, everyone! I, for one, am taking a nice cushy weekend, as all week I've been working on this, an installation piece about the creation of a world. The pattern on the head and all the little individual parts are screenprinted, and the pieces were laboriously hand-cut-out by not only me but my amazing friends as well, who spent hours of their time to help me get this done. So Lauren, Beth, Megan, Naeha, Patrick, Jase, Stone (who also took these photos), and Collin, thanks from the bottom of my heart, you guys rock, and I couldn't have done it without you!
Here's the first one, an accordion book called "a tale of suspense followed by disappointment." The paper I used is paste paper I made, and the fish and boats are pen on mylar (a material I have quickly learned to love):
Here's the first page:
Many pages later:
The disappointing end:
And here's the second book in the pile, a coptic stitched book made with graph paper, tealish paper that I made awhile ago, and red/gold handmade paper that I bought:
Hopefully, I'll finish the leather one today and have it updated tonight or tomorrow!
hiya, just out of extreme curiosity,
ReplyDeleteI was wondering what your message or what you were trying to explore with the creation myth piece?
I love it so much! it looks amazing!
Thank you!
ReplyDeleteHmmm, what I was trying to explore...well, there are creation myths in which some sort of godlike figure vomited up the world (like the Bakuba myth where a giant vomited up all of existence), and I wanted to make kind of a similar figure. I liked the idea that instead of carefully planning and crafting a world, this god just messily threw it all up, letting the pieces lie where they fell.
I guess I was trying to explore the nature of God and his relationship with the world he supposedly created, and wondering whether it was a carefully planned masterpiece, or just an unpleasant bodily function, haha! I hope that answers your question and thanks for writing!